Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein
Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein ( born February 19, 1847 in Stein am Rhein, † October 26, 1910 in Zurich ) was a Swiss surgeon.
Biography
Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein, son of Johann Michael Gerber's coronet and his wife Anna Elisabeth, born Gräflein, began his medical studies in 1866 in Zurich, put it in 1868 in Bonn continued and finished it in Zurich in 1870 by the state exam. In the same year Krönlein was - together with Edmund Rose, Zurich professor of surgery - during the war ( German - Prussian War ) in the hospital at Berlin Tempelhof active. On August 8, 1872 Krönlein earned his MD with a thesis on the open wound treatment according to experience from the surgical clinic at Zurich. After receiving his doctorate, Dr. Krönlein became a student of the Berlin surgeon Bernhard von Langenbeck.
This was followed in 1874 and 1878 Habilitation the appointment as Associate Professor and Director of the Surgical Clinic in Giessen. In 1879, returned Krönlein back to von Langenbeck. Here he received 1881 reputation from Zurich to succeed his teacher Rose as Professor of Surgery.
In the same year (1881 ) he became Director of the Surgical Clinic at the Cantonal Hospital in Zurich. From 1886 to 1888 Krönlein was also Rector of the University of Zurich.
Specialties
Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein worked on the peritonitis. As a pioneering work, the first held by him surgical removal of an inflamed appendix ( appendicitis) is considered, which in 1884 began the development of the appendectomy. For the operation of the pancreas Krönlein has described the anatomical way. He also pioneered the lung resection, which was made by him before the invention of the pressure difference method by Ferdinand Sauerbruch.
Membership
Krönlein was a member of the German Society of Surgery ( DGCH ), the Annual Meeting in 1905 elected him for a year as chairman.
Works
- Further observations on the localization of the hematoma of the middle meningeal artery and its surgical treatment. In: Contributions to clinical surgery. 13, pp. 66-74, 1895 see also http://edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2009/12416/